Odd time/date stamp in maillog

[Glenn Steen]

On 23/08/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/08/06, Colin Jack <colin at mainline.co.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks ... the odd thing is that the system time seems fine when I use
> > 'date' ... it is just that MailScanner is putting the wrong time stamp
> > in the logs.
> >
> > Colin
> >
> Yes, well... That is an interractive session, which has probably
> loaded some additional environmental setup files, so doesn't say much
> (TZ is probably set in a central profile, bashrc or similar file). If
> you look at your cron jobs etc, they likely have a somewhat "skewed"
> view of what timezone you're in too.
> You obviously have a correct setting for it in the interractive shell,
> so you might want to look at that (echo $TZ).
> BTW, (thanks Phil for the correction:) did you try running system-config-date?
>
> Cheers
If you don't have the system-config-date utility, you can easily yum
it, as shown here:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-May/047058.html

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